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Traps in organic semiconducting crystals are healed when a perfluoropolyether oil is deposited on the surface of these materials, thus making possible the detection of intrinsic features of charge-carrier transport in rubrene and tetracene.

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Figure 1: The healing effect of PFPE on charge transport in organic single crystals as proposed by Lee and co-workers1.

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  1. Chad Risko and Jean-Luc Brédas are at the School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, and the Center for Organic Photonics and Electronics, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332-0400, USA,

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Risko, C., Brédas, JL. Healing contact. Nature Mater 12, 1084–1085 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmat3808

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